Once again it's my aim to share my blues LP's that are hard to find, bloody expensive or a waste of time. I have the naive hope that it will get you interested enough to buy some new releases and support the blues.
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That been said enjoy the music as long as it lasts and any help is always welcome.

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

The Piano Blues Volume 1 - 21

FRANCIS WILFORD-SMITH was born on Saturday, March 12, 1927, Rugby, England.
He is the compiler of the definitive MAGPIE PIANO BLUES series as issued
by Interstate Music. After serving in the Merchant Navy, Wilford-Smith
attended Art School, graduating with a teaching degree. He's a world
renowned cartoonist for magazine & newspapers across the world, and has
exhibited his art in Los Angeles, London and Switzerland. He also has a
interest in popular imagery, and possess important collection of early 20th
Century pin-up magazines! He began seriously collecting piano blues in the
early 50s, and today has the best collection in Britain, if not in the world.
His collection is known for the excellent condition of the original 78 rpm
discs. He also has the best gospel collection in Britain.
His crowning achievement is the world-wide acclaimed MAGPIE PIANO BLUES
series that began in 1977. According to fellow BLUES-L member Robert Deland,
"the MAGPIE PIANO BLUES series is concise, and covers some incredible
performances in a logical way that is unique to blues reissues. While other
issues may be more complete, none is done with higher quality of originals
or material selected. When Magpie issued recordings, only the finest
performances were selected by a given artist, so while it may not be
"complete", it is all quintessential material".

Thanks, Xyros . . . this is a real service. I had some of these once upon a time, the Paramounts and Walter Roland, but just couldn't afford to take them all in. Nice to have them all in one place, even if some of the volumes have been superceded by Yazoo's CD issues. . . .

yet again you have come up trumps this is a fantastic body of work from Francis Wilford Smith. any body got the BBC series on Boogie Woogie he did,possible somebody taped them ? I've just put them all on CD AGAIN THANKS